This thesis examines how soundscapes signify identity in contemporary metropolitan Malaysia. The chosen examples highlight the evolution of musical styles that have become representative of broad Malaysian cultural identity. By moving between analytical frameworks, from cognitiv…
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This project, an outgrowth of the researcher’s Study Abroad experience in the Republic of Turkey, assimilates the principles of ethnomusicology, musical scholarship spanning the Ottoman, Republican, and modern periods in Turkish history, and curriculum planning to present a unit…
This etude book presents text and music to introduce the high school and undergraduate percussion student to concepts and techniques of percussion traditions from around the world. Etudes are based on music from Africa, Latin America, India, Indonesia, and the Middle East. The i…
The objective of this dissertation is to understand why young Sicilian musicians since the late 1980s have created a contemporary popular music genre that can be generalized as Sicilian World-Music. The basic hypothesis is that new musical genres and styles, including those exam…